DEAFWORKS products on Year 2000 ("Y2K")
Harry Gibbens, Jr.
For those who use DEAFWORKS products, I'm pleased to announce that
I've established an official webpage that contains about Year 2000
Compliance statement as follows:
"This is to certify that all of the products manufactured by
DEAFWORKS do not store or use an internal date or time in
the process of operation at any time. This statement
applies to all of the DEAFWORKS products listed in the
website and Catalog."
The subscript reads:
"Good news...None of our products will affect the Year 2000!"
This statement can be found at:
http://www.deafworks.com/y2k.html
Regards,
Harry Jr.
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ATTN: Harry Gibbens, Jr.
The DEAFWORKS Company
P.O. Box 1265
Provo, UT 84603-1265
TTY: (801) 465-1957
FAX: (801) 465-1958
E-mail: harryj...@deafworks.com
Deaf Internet: http://dww.deafworks.com
General Internet: http://www.deafworks.com
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handy
Gibbens, Jr. ) wrote:
>Deaf-L and all,
>
>For those who use DEAFWORKS products, I'm pleased to announce that
>I've established an official webpage that contains about Year 2000
>Compliance statement as follows:
>
>"This is to certify that all of the products manufactured by
>DEAFWORKS do not store or use an internal date or time in
>the process of operation at any time. This statement
>applies to all of the DEAFWORKS products listed in the
>website and Catalog."
That's interesting. I wonder if my TTY is year 2000 ready?
Harry Gibbens, Jr.
>That's interesting. I wonder if my TTY is year 2000 ready?
**** All stand-alone top-of-the-line answering machine TTYs do have
time and date stamp starting with 01/01/00 when first bought or use.
The TTYs will roll over from 99 (1999) to 00 (2000) without any
affecting the technical performance problems. Plus, they don't keep
track of leap year dates (the end of Feburary) and requires you to
manually reset that date for March 1st without affecting the problems.
If you have those features as described above, you are free from Y2K
problems! I haven't seen a TTY that has a Y2K problem, except for
computer TTY as explained below:
For those who use computer TTY softwares which are VERY dependable to
PC's time and date. Since most software don't recognized Y2K, it will
"think" it's 00 as a 1900. It will put that your saved TTY
conversation back to 1900, instead of 2000. In fact, it is no harm
done on using the TTY software. It WILL NOT cause your PC to crash.
But, it will give you some headaches to sort the files seperately from
1900 and 2000. That's the only common problem with the Y2K
situtation.
There's more to it, some TTY softwares contains "user license". If
the license program recognizes "00" as 1900, it will automatically
expires as beyond date. It will shows the error message similarity
to "Need to register with the manufacturer". If you see this message,
contact your manufacturer and see if they can send you an update
downloadable file. If they can't fix it, you're out of luck!
It is a very good time right now to check with your TTY software
manufacturers to see if it is a Y2K compliance. If they claim it
does, have them put in writing immediately so that it won't get into
misunderstanding and have them to accept all restoration costs once
this TTY program foul up on your PC after Jan1st. Believe it or not,
there is a new breed of lawyers who specialized in Y2K and will
represent any clients who will have problems with any softwares that
doesn't recognize Y2K and messed up with their PCs!
We have suspended our TTYCard ($99.95) sales due to that legal
reason. We do not want to see our customers to receive headaches.
Plus, we do not want to receive a whole bunch of technical support
calls and put us in short-handed situation. What's more, we do not
have the proper resources to develop the TTYCard to recognize Y2K.
It's too complicated to process at this current moment. If we have to
do this, the retail price will have to jack up way much more just to
cover the ridiculous research & development costs. We will be
definitely releasing the TTYCard product next year, after Jan 1,
2000!
Richard Clark Eckert
>
> That's interesting. I wonder if my TTY is year 2000 ready?
>
ya mean I get a chance to absolutely destroy another shake-awake and blame
it on Y2K? Actually after I broke the third one I decided no more. Rude
Rude Rude!
Kevin Balaam
<harryj...@deafworks.com> wrote:
>Deaf-L and all,
>
>For those who use DEAFWORKS products, I'm pleased to announce that
>I've established an official webpage that contains about Year 2000
>Compliance statement as follows:
>
>"This is to certify that all of the products manufactured by
>DEAFWORKS do not store or use an internal date or time in
>the process of operation at any time. This statement
>applies to all of the DEAFWORKS products listed in the
>website and Catalog."
>
>
>
>"Good news...None of our products will affect the Year 2000!"
That IS a relief! I am glad time will not be affected by any DEAFWORKS
product. But I always thought Y2K was about computers and electronic devices
being affected, not time! Seems like it might be bigger than I thought! <g>
>
>
>
>This statement can be found at:
>
>http://www.deafworks.com/y2k.html
>
>
>Regards,
>Harry Jr.
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>ATTN: Harry Gibbens, Jr.
>The DEAFWORKS Company
>P.O. Box 1265
>Provo, UT 84603-1265
>
>TTY: (801) 465-1957
>FAX: (801) 465-1958
>
>E-mail: harryj...@deafworks.com
>Deaf Internet: http://dww.deafworks.com
>General Internet: http://www.deafworks.com
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I don't have a DEAFWORKS product, but have tested my Ultratec TTYs for Y2K
compliance and they passed with flying colours.
Regards,
Kevin Balaam
kev...@eric.net.au
http://home.eric.net.au/~kevbal/index.htm
ICQ#:24195835
handy
wrote:
>That IS a relief! I am glad time will not be affected by any DEAFWORKS
>product. But I always thought Y2K was about computers and electronic devices
>being affected, not time! Seems like it might be bigger than I thought! <g>
Any appliance that sets the date with four digits, probably wont be
effected. TTY's do it that way.